The details of the only Olympic scandal in Sochi, which was given an official move in the first days of the games, became known. We are talking about the incident at the finish of the male skiathlon on February 9 , during which the Russian Maxim Vyglezhanin lost the medal.

The US government recommended its citizens who went to the Sochi Olympics to delete all important information from their computers and other electronic devices, Inopressa reports. American fans were also advised not to count on the inviolability of private information, the threat of which is not only hackers, but also Russian special services.

The organizers of the World Car of the Year International Competition called 12 semi -finalists of 2014, as well as applicants for victory in certain categories. Three candidates for the title of the best car of this year will be named at the Geneva Motor Show in early March, and the winner will be traditionally announced at the Motor Show in New York in April. The jury of the competition consists of 48 journalists of automobile publications from 22 countries.

The Central Bank decided to save my Bank. Mortgage (Ufa), Writes Vedomosti . The bankruptcy of the bank will be prevented with the participation of the deposit insurance agency: the agency will choose a bank at the competition, which will acquire part of the property and obligations of the saved bank.

Long -term gas and electricity tariffs in the Russian Federation will be indexed according to planned inflation, without regular recalculation based on the actual increase in consumer prices, reports Prime .

Restoring the Greece real estate market from a deep crisis of recent years as a result of an excess reserve of housing and insufficient demand will occur no earlier than two to three years later. This conclusion was reached by researchers from the Athenian University of Economics and Business, interviewing market experts, the Ekathimerini portal reports.

Russia will block the draft resolution proposed by the West in the UN Security Council on a humanitarian situation in Syria if it is submitted to the vote in its current form. So said the deputy head of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation Gennady Gatilov, as Interfax reports. The draft resolution, developed by Australia, Jordan and Luxembourg, contains a threat of sanctions against those who prevent the delivery of humanitarian aid in Syria.

According to the results of 2014, the ruble can weaken at the bivalyut basket by 20%, or 8 rubles, this is the forecast of the Center for the Development of the Higher School of Economics. The Russian national currency lost 3 rubles only in January.

The Krasnodar Regional Court rejected the appeal of the ecologist Evgeny Vitishko to the decision of the Tuapse City Court, who replaced him with a conditional punishment with the real case in the case of damage to the fence near the elite mansion, which the nature defenders consider the summer house of the Kuban Alexander Tkachev.

The Russian flying skier Mikhail Maksimochkin was taken away on the reanimobile from training at the Sochi Olympics after a serious fall, RIA Novosti reports. On Wednesday, on a passing training in the "Russian hill" in Sochi, Maksimochkin fell a lot. The skier was immediately loaded onto the stretcher, putting the tire on the neck and fixing the whole body, and took the tracks. Then the athlete at the snowmobile was taken to the resuscitation car, which quickly took Maximochkin.

After the appearance on the red carpet of the Berlin Film Festival with a paper bag on his head and strange behavior at the festival press conference "Nymphomanca" Lars von Trier, the famous actor Shayia Labef continued to surprise the audience, turning these events into an art project, Reuters reports.

In honor of the first 20 years of the visit of French President Francois Hollande to the United States, the American leader Barack Obama invited his colleague to the dinner at the White House dinner. During the event, the attention of the press was attracted by the luxurious dress of his wife Michel Obama - experts estimated his cost of 10-12 thousand dollars.

The American space agency NASA, together with the team of scientists from the USA and Japan, decided to capture the capital of the Winter Olympic Games from space. Some saw in the presented pictures a resemblance to the night view of the North and South Korea.

State Duma deputies have introduced a bill according to which only domestic equipment is proposed in Russian communications in Russian communication networks, and the technique of foreign production - only in extreme cases, when Russia simply does not have the right product. The deputies explained their initiative by the fact that the "dominance" of foreign equipment threatens the Russian economy and defense capabilities, RIA Novosti reports.

The plane crash in Algeria took the lives of 77 people. Such clarifying data was provided by the Ministry of Defense of this country, as ITAR-TASS reports. The C-130 Hercules, which was heading from the airport of the southern Tamanshseet city to Konstantin, suffered a catastrophe at about noon in the local time in the area of ​​the Jeel-Form Mountains in the Um-El-Baga province (500 km east of the capital of Algeria). He did not reach only a few tens of kilometers to the destination.